Preface

Introduction

1. Death of a Pontifex

2. Jurists and Jurisprudence

(i) Case study: Manilius and Varro

(ii) Jurists and authority

(iii) Jurisprudence

(iv) Flavius the scriba

(v) The shock of the new: Q. Mucius and the ius civile

(vi) After Scaevola

(vii) The invention of tradition

(viii) 'Lawyers'

3. Law and the Laws

(i) Defining law I: the 'higher law'

(ii) Law and jurisprudence

(iii) Defining law II: 'public' and 'private'

(iv) The Twelve Tables and the myth of 'private' law

(v) Law and religion

(vi) Defining law III: the naming of parts

(vii) Advocates' law

4. The Juristic Tradition

(i) Cicero against Servius, November 63

(ii) Manilius and the hazards of survival

(iii) Reception and distortion

(iv) Digression: Servius, Sabinus and Gellius

(v) Conclusion

5. Methods of Argument

(i) On Invention

(ii) Jurist versus advocate: secondary heirs and the causa Curiana

(iii) Q. Mucius and the discourse of jurisprudence

(iv) Jurists, orators and the 'hypothetical case'

(v) The rule-book rejected

(vi) Scaevola the Augur and the redundancy of oratory

(vii) The orator and legal knowledge

6. Jurists in Context: Servius and Trebatius

(i) Servius the orator

(ii) Servius the jurist

(iii) Law and rhetoric: the Topica

(iv) Afterword

7. Parallels and Precedents

(i) Precedent and flexibility

(ii) 'Decided cases'

(iii) Precedents and plausibility

(iv) Precedent as 'decided case': the woman from Arretium

(v) Precedent as iudicatum: C. Hostilius Mancinus

(vi) Advocacy as precedent

(vii) Citizenship and the higher law

8. Priestly Law and the ius publicum

(i) Families and sacra

(ii) Adrogation, the pontiffs and public law

(iii) Pontifical responsum and public law

(iv) Augural law and public law

9. The Jurists and Antiquity

(i) The Twelve Tables

(ii) Law and history

(iii) Class struggle and the ius civile

10. Law and Community

(i) Ius civile and civitas

(ii) Law and reputation

(iii) Catiline

(iv) Exile and after

(v) Prosecuting Piso

(vi) Law and dignitas

11. The Rhetoric of Exclusion

(i) Antonius the outlaw

(ii) September 44: the First Philippic

(iii) Faith and shame

(iv) The un-Roman Antonius

(v) The war on Antonius

(vi) The dignitas of Antonius

(vii) Condoning the unlawful

(viii) Farewell to arms

Conclusion: The Partnership of Life

Glossary of Latin and Legal Terms

Bibliography of Works Cited

Index